Re: Drawing Rectangular Grid
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg20211] Re: Drawing Rectangular Grid
- From: Tom Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:06:29 -0400
- Organization: Brahea, Inc.
- References: <7tcbdt$m72@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 5 Oct 1999 04:04:13 -0400, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica you
wrote:
>I would like to have a function that I can give the following
>information to:
>
>Grid[size_of_grid, matrix_of_cells_to_fill]
>
>This function will draw a n x m rectangular grid = size (for example
>size = {2,2} for a 2 x 2 grid).
>
>I then will pass an array of the cells to be filled...
These functions are indeed easy to implement. The following notebook,
with Output removed for brevity, shows one way to make them. Paste the
notebook into Mathematica 3 or Mathematica 4. (Differences between these
two version are relevant to this task.)
Tom Burton
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